_Pride, Vanity, Honour_.

Pride is of great consequence in Mandeville's system.

'The moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.' Man is naturally innocent, timid, and stupid; destitute of strong passions or appetites, he would remain in his primitive barbarism were it not for pride.

Yet all moralists condemn pride, as a vain notion of our own superiority.

It is a subtle passion, not easy to trace.